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The Limitations of Air Traffic Control in the Prevention of Collisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

D. O. Fraser
Affiliation:
(English Electric Company Limited)

Extract

Apart from visual avoidance of other aircraft by pilots the only system of preventing air-to-air collisions at present is by means of air traffic control from the ground. With the increased speed of modern aircraft and increased traffic density on long-distance routes there is a tendency to demand further extension and development of air traffic control to solve the collision problem. The object of this paper is to examine the problems and limitations of air traffic control as a method of avoiding collisions between aircraft in cruising flight and how these are likely to be affected by future aircraft developments.

Type
The Avoidance of Collision by Airborne and Shipborne Means - II
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1958

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